{"id":264048,"date":"2018-12-22T15:58:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T22:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/mike-the-situation-sorrentino-celebrates-3-years-of-sobriety\/"},"modified":"2018-12-22T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T22:58:59","slug":"mike-the-situation-sorrentino-celebrates-3-years-of-sobriety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/mike-the-situation-sorrentino-celebrates-3-years-of-sobriety\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike &#8220;The Situation&#8221; Sorrentino Celebrates 3 Years of Sobriety"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20181122\/rs_1024x768-181222143846-1024-mike-the-situation-sorrentino-122218.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Mike Sorrentino, Instagram\" alt=\"Mike Sorrentino, Instagram\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"768\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram \/ Mike Sorrentino<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.10781671159\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"12.905660377358\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/mike_the_situation_sorrentino\">Mike &#8220;The Situation&#8221; Sorrentino<\/a><\/strong> is marking a major personal milestone following years of turmoil and also giving back to the community this holiday season as he prepares for his upcoming prison sentence for tax evasion.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old\u00a0<em>Jersey Shore<\/em> star wrote on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Brsd9XZlJC4\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> page on Saturday, &#8220;Big daddy Sitch celebrating 3 years of sobriety &amp; teaming up with @discoveryinstitute_nj to bring a holiday meal to Phoenix Recovery House in Eatontown NJ for Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mike has been open about his past addiction to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/303010\/jersey-shore-s-mike-the-situation-sorrentino-i-have-a-prescription-medication-problem\" target=\"_blank\">prescription drugs<\/a>\u00a0and has been known for his past partying ways on <em>Jersey Shore<\/em> several years ago. He and most of the cast members returned for <em>Jersey Shore: Family Vacation<\/em> this year and this time, he filmed the show sober.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.447368421053\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7.7894736842105\">\n<p>&#8220;I was actually a bit insecure,&#8221; he said in a video posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BrmFq1pnxik\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> page of the Discovery Institute for Addictive Disorders, a nonprofit treatment center where he spent six months in rehab. &#8220;I was known to be one of the bigger partiers on Jersey Shore. I told myself, I&#8217;m going to have to continue to challenge myself in my recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"53.181818181818\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4.6245059288538\">\n<p>In recent months, he has spoken to recovery groups in\u00a0New Jersey\u00a0on behalf of the center.\u00a0The Discovery Institute has\u00a0also partnered with Mike on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverynj.org\/givingtree\/\" target=\"_blank\">scholarship program<\/a> to help\u00a0fund treatment for people struggling with drug and\/or alcohol addiction.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54.753731343284\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5.6641791044776\">\n<p>&#8220;[Being sober] really taught me how to just be at peace. It taught me to be more accepting,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/854388\/jersey-shore-s-mike-the-situation-sorrentino-reveals-he-was-heavily-using-on-the-show\" target=\"_blank\">he told E! News<\/a>\u00a0in 2017.\u00a0&#8220;I live my life today at peace. I try not to have any arguments. I mean, everything in my life has changed. I don&#8217;t speed. I don&#8217;t get into fights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/999004\/mike-the-situation-sorrentino-celebrates-3-years-of-sobriety?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram \/ Mike Sorrentino Mike &#8220;The Situation&#8221; Sorrentino is marking a major personal milestone following years of turmoil and also giving back to the community this holiday season as he prepares for his upcoming prison sentence for tax evasion. The 36-year-old\u00a0Jersey Shore star wrote on his Instagram page on Saturday, &#8220;Big daddy Sitch celebrating 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 17:24:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}